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Moultrie County Heritage
Published Quarterly by the Moultrie County
Historical and Genealogical Society
Sullivan, Illinois
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Volume 10
November 1982
Number 4
Page 114
From:
THE LOVINGTON REPORTER,
Lovington, IL 1902
1902-NECROLOGY-1902
The majority of obituaries are on the front page; others
are from locals found on an inside page. These
extracts were copied by Barbara Hawyer from the REPORTER 1902.
NOTE: Parenthicals – information from Cemetery records.
BOOKER, Kate
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d. 13 Feb @ ae 46y 9m 3d of consumption; m1) 1875
J. H. Browing, 4 ch;
m2) 1887 Albert Booker, 3 ch. He d 1891; bur. Lovington Cemetery.
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BRAMHALL, M.
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d. 17 Mar, Lovington; bur. in New Carlisle, Indiana
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BRICKER, Winfield
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d. 3 May victim of terrible accident; b 1 Jan 1875
in Effingham, IL; m 26 Aug 1900 Hattie Burress.
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BROWN, Minerva
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d. 10 Feb; Lovington Cem. (b 1 Apr 1847 w/o Curtis
W. Brown)
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CHEEVER, Mary A.
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d. 2 Jul Lovington; Hewitt Cem.; b 16 Apr 1827
Pickaway Co., OH
m. 1842 Nathan Cheever; 6 ch; resided in Lovington
all her life.
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CUNNINGHAM, Mrs. James
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Aged lady d. Mon. 3 Nov @ Kankakee where she had
been the past 2 mths an inmate of the insane asylum.
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DAILEY, Mary
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d. _ Sept @ ae 71 y @ home of her brother W. B.
SHOOK; b. in Sangamon Co., IL; bur. Ayr, NE; had resided in NE since
1872.
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DEDMAN, Mrs. Claude (Bessie Marlow)
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b. 21 Apr 1876; d. 10 July Lake City of tubercular
meningitis (Kellar Cem.; w/o C. N. Dedman).
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DIXON, Simon
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d. @ his home in Ross Co., OH Mon. of heart
trouble-18 Aug. @ 66 y. Brother of John W. Dixon of Ulrich, IL.
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EDWARDS, Thomas
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b. 1868 High Park, PA; d. 19 July Lovington; m.
Lizzie Rees, 4 ch burial Kellar Cemetery –(no stone)
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ENSMINGER, Phillip
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d. 25 Mar 1902
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FLEMING, Mrs. Warren (Martha P. Littleton)
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d. 22 Jan, Arthur; (w/o Warren M. Fleming, Sheriff
of Moultrie Co., IL): DAR.
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FRANTZ, Catherine E.
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b. 7 Jun 1825 new Holand, Pickaway Co., OH; d. 2
Aug @ ae 77y 1m 25d; Lovington Cem.; m 19 Mar 1854 Calvin Frantz.
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FULK, Jesse Leroy
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d. @ ae 18 hrs 12 July; run down by I.D.& W.
train near Casner Saturday evening; mor, 3 bros & 2 sisters live nar
Long Creek.
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GIBBON, John Miller
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b. 14 Apr. 1868 Girard, IL; d. 19 July Terre Haute,
IN; res. In Lowe Twp, Moultrie Co., IL; m. Anna Howell; 4 children.
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GREER, Miss Madella Alice
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d. Sun 8 Jun @ ae 20yr 7m 3d of consumption;
teacher; b. 5 Nov 1881 @ Litchfield, IL
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GRIFFIN, Harry
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d. 1 Oct, run over & killed Tues night near
Turpin by IL Cen. Freight train; age 20 yrs; farming near Dalton; s/o
Patrick Griffin now of Attica, Ind.
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HARPIN, Frank
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d. 9 Jun from gunshot wounds inflicted by Frank
Hortenstine.
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HEWITT, Harry
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d. 6 Mar @ age 2m 26d; s/o George Hewitt; bur
Hewitt Cemetery.
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HILLIGOSS, William J.
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d. 18 Jan. 1902
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HOUT, Elsie May
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b. Lovington 1890; d 1 July @ home of James Cherry
@ ae 12y 1m 1d; Kellar Cem.; d/o William Sherman Hout; removed to
Brownstown, Fayette Co., IL; had returned for visit; services @
Christian church, Lovington.
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HOWELL, Cal
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Who lives in Sullivan lost his wife & 3 ch by
death during the past 6 weeks. 2
ch died of scarlet fever, an infant died soon after birth; the mother
died last Fri evening of blood poison.
Another dau is seriously ill with pneumonia.
Mother died 14 Feb 1902.
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HOWELL, Eliza E.
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b. 4 Nov 1836 Washington Co., OH; d. 27 June of
heart attack @ home; Lovington Cem; m. Charles Howell; 9 daughters and 2
sons.
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KELLAR, Henry Y.
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d. @ home in Effingham 1 Dec @ ae 77 y 4m 17d of
heart disease; pioneer in Lovington Twp; b. Oldham Co., KY 16 Aug. 1826;
to Ill while a child; united with Christian church 1842; was ordained a
minister in 1845; m. 3 times & had 7 ch., only one of whom, Mrs.
David Kingery is living; bur. Kellar Cemetery.
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KELLEY, Benjamin
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Of Arthur b. 1824; d. 2 Feb. @ ae 72y; Kellar
Cemetary
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KESTNER, Arley Lorenzo
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d. 27 Feb; infant s/o James & Mollie Kestner.
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KINZEL, Grandma
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d. @ ae 82y Tuesday 2 Dec. @ home of her son W. O.
Kinzel; bur. Bement Cemetery; 1 sister, 3 sons, 1 daughter survive her.
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KRALL, Eliza
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An aged lady, & an invalid, d. @ home of her
brother, Harrison Krall 9 Mar. 1902; bur. Hammond Cemetery.
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LONG, Elizabeth
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d. 17 Apr. @ ae 76y 9m 21d; Dellar Cem.; w/o Peter
D. Long.
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LOY, Voris M.
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Of Effingham, mangled by freight train at Lanton
Thurs., d. 24 July @ ae 18
years; s/o R. L. & Clara Smith Loy.
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LUX, Peter
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Of Milmine, oldest citizen, d. 16 Apr; born in
Alsace 11 Jan 1813; m. 26 Sep 1840 Miss Christina Frank, Logansport,
IN-d. 9 Jul 1899 @ age 76 years; had 9 sons and 3 daughters.
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McCRAVEY, Howard
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d. 5 Apr. 1902; s/o C. G. McCravey
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McCULLOUGH, Mrs. S.
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d. 7 Mar. 1902
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McDONALD, Mrs. Oscar
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Of Williamsburg, IL d. 12 Apr after illnes of
almost a year. She leaves
her husband.
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McFARLAND, Margaret
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D. 19 Apr @ home of her son-in-law, S. B. Cochran
at Clarksburg, OH @ ae 77y7m 19d; widow of Edward D. McFarland m. 26
July 1840 burial at Brown’s Chapel, Clarksburg, Ohio.
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McGURTY, Dr. P. H.
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Died of consumption at Charlestown Wed. last week,
21 May practiced medicine in Arcola; formerly visited Lovington twice a
month.
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MILLER, Stephen
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d. 5 Aug @ ae 47y 1 mile easat of Dalton City, IL
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MIZE, Charley
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d. Monday 1 Dec. of diptheria @ ae 10 months; s/o
Walter Mize; bur. Lovington Cemetery.
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NEWLAN, Lydia
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d. 2 Sept. @ ae 1y 9m 12d; d/o Albert I & Anna
L. Bliss Newlan; bur. Lovington Cemetery.
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NEWLAN, Sophia Isadore
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b. 15 Feb 1881; d. 18 Aug @ home; bur. Lovington
Cem.; had Bright’s disease; d/o F. M. Newlan.
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PHILLIPS, Florence Adeline
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d. 17 Jan @ ae 3 y 1 m 16 d; Kellar Cem.; (d/o R.
P. and Sarah E. Phillips)
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RHODES, Walter
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Killed at Bethany Friday 5 Sept.; 9y old s/o H. B.
Rhodes
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RUSSELL, Mrs. Ezra
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d. 16 June at home north of Lovington; bur.
Martinsville, IN.
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SHERIDAN, B. F.
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d. 7 June @ home on W. Harrison, Sullivan (bur.
Greenhill) Had been in an
altercation with Clyde Monroe a week previous while being intoxicated;
a prominent business man but drank heavily.
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SPRINGER, Wheeler
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Of Lake City d. 27 July; Lovington Cem. (no stone);
former resident in Ullrich.
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SPRINKEL, Lillian
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d. 13 Sept. bur. Mechanicsburg Cem.; moved to
Lovington in April 1902.
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TITUS, Grace Cooper
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d. 19 June @ ae 24y, Terre Haute, IN; suicide by
carbolic acid.
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TURNER, _____(twins)
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d. 12 Mar 1902; parents-Fred Turner
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WAGGONER, Gilbert
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Oldest man in county, d @ home in Whitley Twp.
Monday 17 Nov. Had he lived
until next May, he would have been 95 years old. He came to this county
& settled in Whitley Twp @ ae 20 yrs & had lived in one place
for about 74 years.
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WILDMAN, Arminta Bliss
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b. 2 Mar 1862; d. 18 May in Oregon; w/o Rodney L.
Wildman, m. 29 Mar 1884; 2 children; home-Princeville, IL.
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WILLIAMS, Mrs. Mary
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d. 14 May @ Rest, Kansas @ ae 86 yr 8 m 5 d; lived
in Lovington 1850 to 1869 when they left for KS; w/o John F. Williams,
better known to our older citizens as “jug” Williams. Mr. Williams was a blacksmith here.
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WININGS, Scott
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Took his own life Mon. night @ home of his father,
Squire William Winings in Lake City; d. 13 Oct. @ ae 40y & a
widower; leaves an 18 yr. Old daughter; bur. Long Creek Cemetery.
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